OpinionSeptember 25, 2000
SPEAKOUT
HERE WE go again. As soon as you can open your windows to get some fresh air, this man on Westwood starts all this burning again. He has tree limbs everywhere. He is going to catch this whole neighborhood on fire because it is so dry. They tell you not to burn. With this wind, it is really dangerous. No one else burns. Everything stinks. I have to keep my kids inside because the air is so bad...
Burning nuisance
HERE WE go again. As soon as you can open your windows to get some fresh air, this man on Westwood starts all this burning again. He has tree limbs everywhere. He is going to catch this whole neighborhood on fire because it is so dry. They tell you not to burn. With this wind, it is really dangerous. No one else burns. Everything stinks. I have to keep my kids inside because the air is so bad.
Support the Indians
AS A SEMO football fan, I just wanted to thank all the other fans who showed up at the game and made a lot of noise stomping on those bleachers. It made a big difference in the ballgame. If we can get even more people out there each and every Saturday and make even more noise, no team will come into Houck and beat the Indians. Let's get some support out there. Good luck, Indians. We'll be behind you. It is a new era. Southeast is going to be on the map.
Great Society No. 2
ISN'T IT something what a difference a day can make? A few days ago it seems like Bill Clinton said that the era of Big Government was over. But it looks like now Big Government is back. What we have now is the Great Society No. 2. LBJ is alive and well again. If Al Gore gets in the White House, he is going to start all of these programs again. It proves Al Gore is magical. He can resurrect things. Maybe he can resurrect LBJ.
Come back, McCain
I WOULD like to formally and publicly apologize to many of my fellow Republican activists. You were correct. McCain was the man.
More regulations
TO ALL those people who think planning and zoning is a good thing because they worry about a hog farm coming in next door: My message to you is, Folks, relax. Hog prices are so bad nobody is going to put a hog farm in anywhere. Your greater danger is the increased regulations and government interference. That is how planning and zoning goes way overboard in terms of what it can do.
He will do OK
SEEING GEORGE W. Bush on Oprah Winfrey's show, I am not a bit worried about the debates. He was just wonderful. He sure had the audience in the palm of hands. This man deserves to win this election. We need Bush. Vote for him.
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Smoking at concert
I AM calling to say how I enjoyed the concert at the fair. I attended two nights. I went Thursday night and had front-row seats. Excellent concert. Saturday night went to see Don Williams. I had tickets for bleacher seats. My complaint is the people who cannot go for an hour without smoking. We were seated by a chronic smoker who had 10 cigarettes in an hour's time. After an hour of putting up with cigarette smoke in my face, I got up and left. There is a problem when somebody is so rude to pollute your air and you can't even enjoy a concert.
Stick to the issues
IT LOOKS like the Watergate-tactic politics is in Southeast Missouri and on the national scene. People don't want this. All they want is the issues. And that is all they need to give them. Just present the issues.
Rich rely on poor
TO THE person who seems to love the rich and wants to scorn the poor: Yes, we Democrats are for the poor and are proud of it. You have to realize if wasn't for us poor cats, us peons, us people who have worked for minimum wage and have really paid taxes that the fat cats are exempt form there wouldn't be fat cats. It takes two to tango. If it weren't for us poor people, there wouldn't be rich people, because we work for their unpaid wages. We make them rich. We help them. They are supposed to help us.
Stop the farming?
I JUST read the article about the county planning and zoning meeting at Millersville. We live on a farm. It was interesting to read the woman's comment that she wanted a rural lifestyle but didn't want a hog farm next door. What I am wondering is this: When she moved to farm country, did she expect the farming operations around her to come to a halt?
What do you know?
ALL I ever hear from the Democrats is that the American people understand this and they understand that. I don't like anyone to tell me what I understand. That is pretty presumptuous for them to assume the American people know anything?
Now that's numbing
THE ONLY thing more cynically numbing than another government scandal is another political column bemoaning the public's cynical numbness to government's scandals.
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